New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-06
TWO MORE GREEN GOODS MEN CApTURED
KEEPING LITTLE LIST OF THE CoUNTRYMEy TREY
HAD SWINDLED.


HAD swINDLED.
Superintendent Murray called the precinct detectives
10 Police Headquarters yesterday morning and gave
them instructions In the work of tracking tho sawduSt
swndlers' The men are expected to watch all the
barher shops, cigar stores and liquor dens in the city
at which letters received for the swnders epy
to the green goods" circulars that sent country
men Inspector Byrnes and his mon are engaged in
The work also, and the precinct detectives told
yesterday that they would remanded to patrol duty
II they failed to accomplish their part of the work.
The police determined to make the sawdust7 bust
ness so Improbable that few ccuntrymen will
come 10 the city In the expectation of buying counter
felt money. Most of the swinders are said to be opium
smokers and the warfare upon them will also involve
the breaking up of many small opium dcns r the city.
Early yesterday morning two Of the swindlers,
Charles A. Forth alias Ford and George b. oliver
arrested by Detectives Connolly and Haggcry, of the
Nineteenth PIecn The detectives learned on Friday
night that the swndlers had hired room at No. 112
West Twenty ninth st. and had sent trunk there.
A note pur. oitng to be written by countrymsn In
search Of grern goods sent TO them appointing
meeting at Slxth-ave and Thirty frstst. 80 m.
yesterday Forth and OLIVER fell into the trap and
we're at the place time. Sergeant Schmittbcrgcr
was W tn tic detectives when the Swindcr~ were ar.
| rested Both the prisoners used opium, and they
eegcd the police to let them retain pellets of The
drug The keys of the and Of Oh" trunk in it
After tho prisoners had been locked up the trunk
carried to tie West Thticth STREE Police station
ana opened IL contained the Tplcments Of the saw
dust trade, many letters from persons who had been
Swirfrd ,c kinds Of goods" circulars and one
II Bradstrcets boos of addresses. There account
books also showing how much business had been done
lately by oliver aud Forth These books and the let
| tcrs wore amusing reading for the police
Francis Rail- of CodwateI. Mercer County. Ohio.
had visited the city and had stayed fifteen days at the
Hotel Bart hold I'm order paw $500 10 the Swndlcrs
for what H. thought 81 600 in counterfeit money,
ony To find brick and come ashes In his Sa'che when
| he got back home. He entered I'm the account
onk as 81 G. C. Narcntz a 90, of AleGan Mich.
stayed AZ III" Putnam House from July - 10 August >
| and was cheated out of $40. J. h shoemaker Of
buffalo Mills. Penn. had sent 500 70 the swindlers by
mail and had asked to have the stuff" sent 10 HIN In
Ike IA hiOn. C. W. Sh'rrn N 81. Of Doolft!r Mills,
Ind, had boon fercrd ont Of 900 while STAYING al the
| Hotel BarthOldi in September James Martin OF Me
Imncy. Ohio. had given up $175 for bag Of sawdns
that he fondly hoped $3.50 in green STUN H. q.
" lee. Newt OncOrd ONO, registered Al the puinam
House November - and enriched tie sWind'fs 10
The extent of $50. \. Chri>Uan, Of Franklin. Tenn
guest Of the hotel In October. let the rognes
Ihirkied OF Anna shelby County. ohi" who stayed al
| The Hotel Barthold in August. q. H. Helm"r "f In
diana Ialc Mich down IN N" book a " ~. Wroi" TO
| 'hc swndlcrs that he would 10 Obliged 10 mriitagc
| his logs order to do business with them I' was
advised TO auck about II. the chance 81 getting
" GREEN goods would not last much longer. He came
the city luv 3. po'cd TO The Hotel haith"l
| snucN7ed 20 the ext ~ OF Sll5.
Forth and oliver taken 20 Tho J"HcfSon Mar
Police Court Yesterday, hnt were rcnaniNi 10 ma
Nelson and TIeyrlan the who We about to swim
de the rulelcss Deacon Gillian OF I"nurS-'e Wrle
sent to tho TomhS yesterday by Justice German The
deacon was talcn back to the House Of I"ien'l"h'